Am Donnerstag, den 11.01.2007, 18:55 +0000 schrieb robert burrell donkin: > > > > Think of a mbox and pop3. The backend opens the file and indexes it. > > > > > > that is not conversational state but an optimization > > > > Right, but without a session there is no possibility for that > > optimization. > > there are different ways which this could be implemented. the current > session concept is not necessary and in some cases can be detrimental. > > a flaw with the current API is that a session is opened before the > factory has any idea about what's it's to be asked to do. it is > therefore inefficient to perform any optimization when the session is > opened. > > for example, whenever an IMAP session is opened the session > pre-emptively caches the UIDs. at this time, the session cannot know > whether a particular command will need this information or not.
As I said the last time: This is intended to be done on first use. Just lazy initialization on demand. That way you need not know whether it is needed or not. Joachim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
